Mattis-Class Powered Infantry Support Unit

[hjmediastudios]

I came up with this as a quick spin-off of my Friday Power Hour design for the "Dress My Exo-Suit" contest. A Marine vehicle of the late 21st century named after the famed general and later president known for his leadership during the African Crisis.

Main shot:

Back view:

Cockpit:

And the little dude I threw together for the project:

This uses the unmodified basic frame of the exo-suit as provided by the contest and adds armor plating, sensors, and comfortably fits a crew of one specially-trained warrant officer. I'll be posting more views as well as the actual contest entry (modified to fit a classic theme) tomorrow.

Edited August 23, 2014 by hjmediastudios

[Saint]

Win !

-no need to say more-

Grtz Saint

[ElCrab]

Very cool, especially love the name. I have a Facebook friend that served under General Mattis (then, a colonel) in Desert Storm.

[lightningtiger]

AWESOME mech design and those troopers are even more awesome........Brick On Fight On 'hjmediastudios' !

[hjmediastudios]

And here's the actual entry for the Exo-suit contest- an Ice Planet 2002 version.

Main Image

Detail view

[grum64]

Both look formidable. Love the choice of colours on both builds especially the first one. Great work. Well done

Best of luck with the competition

Edited August 23, 2014 by grum64

[danth]

Okay, the Ice Planet one is fantastic. I think the trans red slopes that make up the chain saw should technically face the same way all the way around.

[LEGO Train 12 Volts]

Just one word: I wanna this awesome mech! ;-)

[Im a brickmaster.]

I'm getting a very Titanfall-ish feel from your mechs, especially the first one. Very nice

[mccoyed]

Awesome mechs.

[Jarren]

Can we just end the contest now and declare the winner? :P

Seriously though, both are incredible builds. Well done. It still baffles me how people are able to build digitally like that. Do you tinker with real bricks as you are designing or are you pure digital?

[hjmediastudios]

Almost everything I do is done in real bricks first; I find it's just easier to figure things out that way. That being said, sometimes it is easier to build digitally- I wish real life had a copy/paste function! (And an "undo" would be more helpful still!)

[Jared]

The colour scheme is basically next to perfect! Great choice!

[___]

As I do not like mechs and stuff very much as whole I will ask something else: your renders are superb, organic, fluid and all..one simple big WOW! :thumbup: :thumbup:

So logically the question is: as I see you definitely didn't do it in LDD nor MLCad, cos they cannot do those bends of legs and arms of minifigs etc., and you probably also did not render it using POV-Ray because of the background and baseplane seamless gradient...so can you tell us all (OK, namely myself ) in what SW exactly did you do all of this, please? PLEASE just do not tell me that it was made in Blender or I jump out of the window (...in the basement )...

[hjmediastudios]

I'm afraid to disappoint, but I do indeed do my renders in Blender- the minifig model is my own design and one that I re-use for pretty much every project. However, I do the actual design of Lego objects in either MLCad or LDD, depending on the situation. The background also isn't a smooth gradient; it's a simple studio-style backdrop, and most of my images use 2-5 light-emitting planes for lighting with a bit of environment lighting.